hi there the Guardian adds ip's to the .htaccess file for the forumand if you have a list of abuse address then you can enter them here Admin Center >> The Guardian >> and in Global and Server SettingsEnter IP addresses or (partial) domain names you want blocked on server level, one per linehope this helps you

YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)

hi there the Guardian adds ip's to the .htaccess file for the forumand if you have a list of abuse address then you can enter them here Admin Center >> The Guardian >> and in Global and Server SettingsEnter IP addresses or (partial) domain names you want blocked on server level, one per linehope this helps you

I understand how that operates, and I'm using that. However, with the surge of events being trapped by The Guardian, I was looking for a way to automate this process server wide.

This works fine on the single domain YaBB is installed, but since I'm hosting a few other domains, I'd love to automate it one step further. I figure that if one domain is getting hit, and The Guardian is trapping those, why not use it to help protect the other domains.

With my limited perl experience for security issues, I just want to make sure my adding that line won't break YaBB.

I understand how that operates, and I'm using that. However, with the surge of events being trapped by The Guardian, I was looking for a way to automate this process server wide.

This works fine on the single domain YaBB is installed, but since I'm hosting a few other domains, I'd love to automate it one step further. I figure that if one domain is getting hit, and The Guardian is trapping those, why not use it to help protect the other domains.

With my limited perl experience for security issues, I just want to make sure my adding that line won't break YaBB.

Thanks for your response.

ah i get you now you mite be better posting on here http://www.boardmod.org/ if one of the Development Team dont get back to you here

hope this helps

YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)

I've been trying to block IP in The Guardian using wildcards for the last two octets. Examle:29.159.***.***I now realize this is incorrect. For one thing it doesn't work. (My server does support .htaccess) I also noticed that you're only allowed one wildcard per line.My first question is, "What is the wildcard character?" I assumed "*."Second, will the correct syntax be 29.159.268.*?

Thank for any help you can give.

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Re: Guardian & iptablesReply #5 - Nov 18th, 2011 at 10:39pm

With thanks to the other responses to my previous posts.

From what I understand about wildcards in .htaccess, in order to block with a wildcard, just stop at "." with no wildcard character. For instance, to block 29.159.***.***, simply

order allow,denydeny from 29.159.allow from all

A google search for "htaccess ip block" may bring you more methods, or even prove or disprove my example.